TINFOIL HAT

[bobemm]

And that selfish jackass with the super-resistant strain of TB - it strikes me as odd that his new father-in-law works for a CDC unit that deals with bacterial dis-eases such as TB, but that has no-thing to do with how he got this super-rare strain of TB that supposedly only exists in pockets in Asia. Curiouser and curiouser!

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[roadster-guy.livejournal.com]

I, too, thought that this was a remarkable coinkydink!

Sounds like the start of a Stephen King novel...

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Exactly! If I don't talk to you in the next few days...I guess I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!!!

[mikeinbama.livejournal.com]

I think this jackass put so many people in danger so he wouldn't ruin the big wedding that he and his now wife, planned in Greece. The father-in-law is also to blame because he knew how dangerous the strain of TB this guy was carrying. I bet he will get his ass sued.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I hope that he doesn't die, mostly so that he can be made to suffer somehow :-D

Even if they really didn't realize how bad off he was before he flew to Europe, there's no excuse for flying back. It appears to have been a conscious and informed decision to risk trading any number of other people's lives for his own.

Lawyers... :-P

Typhoid Mary II

[cowboymarine.livejournal.com]

holy shit... what a selfish bastard. This dude gives lawyers a bad name, if you can imagine

[ludomancer.livejournal.com]

That's a hell of a way to express one's disapproval of their daughter's choice of groom (try the tea, it's deliccccccious).

On my way back from my honeymoon, I must have blacked out and woke up with cement shoes at the bottom of a river, but it had nothing to do with my new wife's mafia boss dad.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

hahahaha I didn't think about it from that angle. I think that's the most reasonable explanation.

[sisyphus238.livejournal.com]

He had been doing charity work in Viet Nam or some such place and, according to this morning's news they didn't know exactly what strain he had until he got to Rome. Still no excuse, as he had been warned not to travel at all.

[foobarnow.livejournal.com]

there is *definitely* a plot line here, especially when the father asks the media to not hype the connection.

Perhaps they were "testing" the ability for a terrorist bio-bomb to pass through the system(s) undetected and the test went awry?

Even more amazing was the custom's agent who knew this guy was infected but allowed him to pass from Canada because "he looked healthy".

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

because "he looked healthy"

Well, that's the criterion I use when deciding whether or not to let anonymous strangers bareback me, so I don't see why not.

[sdf.livejournal.com]

UM THEN WHY DO YOU USE CONDOMS WITH ME???

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

lol do u rlly have to ask, u skank???

[ludomancer.livejournal.com]

I think it's all just a high concept promotion for 28 Weeks Later, a la the Aqua Teen lite brite boards in Boston.

[dharmacrat.livejournal.com]

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

HA!!!

[casecob.livejournal.com]

given what I heard from today's press conference at National Jewish, I'm neither surprised that he travelled (mostly because he had big plans and I think the doctors probably didn't underscore flight risks - considering what they must've told him when he was sputum-negative, that he was extremely low risk of communicating the disease...), nor am I surprised that he flew back (he didn't know the strain until he was there and figured not getting back to the US was a death setence. fwiw, this is probably true. Consider also that the CDC told him they would not allocate funds for his transfer, so he was going to be stuck in Italy...)

Given that he's still sputum negative, it's unlikely he was ever at risk of transmissibility to other patients. We'll see - he's damn lucky about that, too. That could've changed at any point during the trip!

As for the father-in-law - that thought had crossed my mind. From what I understand though, this strain isn't contagious like wildfire - I think you need to be somewhat immunocompromised

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

I think you need to be somewhat immunocompromised

A ha! That adds another potential layer of intrigue. He probably has a long-standing gay buttsex affair with the father-in-law, who gave him HIV!

[sdf.livejournal.com]

does everything have to be about you?

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Honey, it's a common situation. Not just me and your dad.